So apparently if you’ve been in Kansas City for a long time — which I’ll admit I haven’t — you know all too well that Prairie Village resident Mike Babick likes to erect an annual Christmas display rife with moving parts and creepy automatons. And that’s his right as an American, by god, as a [...]
Archive for the ‘Holidays’ Category
Local Heathens Wage War On Christmas, Ostentation
Posted in Controversy, Holidays, Religion, Transportation, tagged Christmas, Holiday Displays, Parking, Parties, Prairie Village, U-S-A!, War On Christmas on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Holidays on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
State of the Line is on Thanksgiving vacation. Have a great holiday. See you Monday.
Today In Curmudgeonry: Wah-waaaaaahhhh…
Posted in Holidays, Unfettered Letters, tagged Letters, Sadness, Star Blogs on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hey, the holidays are approaching! What a joyous time that is. Eggnog, bad sweaters, Tony Bennett’s awesome Christmas album — it’s just so pleasant. Right, Larry Heffel of Lenexa? Oh, not so much.
Posted in Holidays, tagged Eric Stonestreet on November 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Area native Eric Stonestreet will turn on the mayor’s Christmas tree this year. I think we speak for everyone when we say: who?
Posted in Comedy, Holidays, tagged Jason Sudeikis, Plaza Lights on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hilarious local Jason Sudeikis will turn on the Plaza Lights this year. But will he let us in for FutureSpace?
Posted in Education, Headlines, Holidays on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A quick national media shout-out for a local voice: Clancy Martin, philosophy prof at UMKC and (apparently) former jewelry store owner, has an op-ed in the Times today. Some intriguing thoughts, especially if you’ve read The Gift.
KC Zoo Stages Saddest Rodent Ceremony Ever
Posted in Animals, Holidays on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As Benton mentioned earlier today, it’s Funkhog Groundhog Day! Of course, the most famous celebration takes place in the Keystone State, where P. Phil predicted, sigh, six more weeks of the worst season. But here in Kansas City, we do things a little differently. We use hedgehogs, apparently, as a part of some weird rodent-off [...]
Mayoral Marmota Monax Espies Shadow, Ensures Six More Weeks of City Hall Shenanigans
Posted in Animals, Comedy, Holidays, Trivial, Uncategorized, tagged Funkhouser, Groundhog Day on February 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If only things could change after six weeks.
Happy Woodchuck Groundhog Day, everyone.
Kansas Celebrates 148th Birthday By Co-Opting Other States’ Historical Figures
Posted in Holidays, Trivial, Uncategorized, tagged Abraham Lincoln, Kansas on January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hey, we missed Kansas Day yesterday! And what better historical figure to embody the heritage of the Sunflower State than…Abraham Lincoln?
Really, Kansas Historical Society? Is this year’s theme “Remember the Alamo”?
(Side note: one of our favorite state mottos belongs to Maryland: Fatti maschi, parole femmine, which is Italian for “Manly deeds, womanly words.”)
Funk & Gloria: ‘Hey, We Really Are Working, You Know!’
Posted in City Government, Funkhouser, Holidays, Odd Behavior on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mayor Funkhouser’s personal blog — the folksily-named “Funk’s Front Porch” — has long provided good fodder for local snark traffickers. What makes the forum especially delightful are the semi-regular newsletters written by “Gloria and Mark,” which we suspect is merely a stand-in for “Gloria.” The actual newsworthy content of the newsletters is rarely exciting, but buried [...]
